Process for obtaining from paraffin, wax, fats and resins, naphtha and mineral oils, products dissoluble in water or forming with it colloidal solutions.



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GRIGORI rn'rnorr, or rnraoenan, RUSSIA.

I PROCESS FOR OBTAINING FROM PARAFFINQ WAX, FATS AND RESINS, NAPHTHA.AND MINERAL OILS, PRODUCTS DISSOLUBLE IN WATER R FORMING WITH ITCOLLOIDAL i To all whom it may corzcern:

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Be it known that I, Gnmoxr Pnrnorr, chemist, a subject of the Czar ofRussia, residing at 23'Pessochna street, Petrograd, Russia, haveinvented certain new and useful improvements in processes for obtainingfrom paraffin, wax, fats and resins, naphtha and mineral oils, productsdissoluble in water or forming with .it colloidal solutions; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

As is well known, in order to obtain mineral oils soluble in water orforming with it emulsions of colloidal solutions, mineral oils are mixedwith fatty acids, resin oils, resinous oils, colophony, saponified bystrong water solutions or caustic alkali or ammonia and, in order toobtain a more uniform and transparent product, ethyl alcohol orsulfonated castor oil is added. For instance, 20 kilograms light resinoil, 20 kilograms olein, 7-10 kilograms solution of caustic soda of 33B., 100 kilograms mineral oil of 0.900 specific gravity, 20 kilogramsdenaturized spirit are taken. The oils are mixed and warmed to amoderate temperature and the spirit and alkali are added by turns untilan oily product is obtained which forms with water a.sta ble emulsion.(Messenger of the Fat Industry for 1909, No. 6, page 87).

A further example is the following: 30 kilograms of sulfonated castoroil, 30 kilograms refined resin oil, 100 kilograms mineral' oil, 10kilograms oolophony, 30 kilograms olein. Colophony is melted and afterit is cooled sulfonated oastor oil,resin oil and olein are added. Themixture is gradually and slowly stirred and a solution of caustic sodaof 30 Be. is added until the mixture becomes transparent and is able toform an emulsion with water. (Messenger of the Fat Industry, 1909, No.6.) l

The inventors have found that in order to obtain the so-called solublemineral oils as well as materials forming solutions, colloidal solutionsor emulsions with water, suchrbodies being hereinafter referred to inthe specification and claims as water soluble roducts from paraflins,fats, wax and resins, the sulfo. acids derived from Patented June19,1917.

Application filed July 31, 1915. Serial No. 43,018.

hydrocarbon, naphtha or mineral oils, for example, by the methoddescribed in the specification of GfPetrolfs United States.

Patent No. 1,087,888, dated Feb. 17, 1914, or of the alkali metal andammonium or like salts derived from these acids or from the sulfonateddistillates'of naphtha and mineral oils may be employed. In order toobtain the above mentioned Water soluble products, the described sulfoacids or their alkali metal and ammonium salts in the anhydrous state assuch, or dissolved in benzol, acetone, benzin, ether, or the like, arein troduced into the oils, fats, resins or other substances, andwhenever solvents are used they may be' driven oil with the aid of heator by blowing out with air.

Example 1: 80 parts ofsunfiower oil are mixedwith 40 parts of benzolsolution containing 50% of sulfo acids; the benzol is driven ofi byblowing out with the aid of air.

Example 2: 50 parts by Weight of paraflin and 50 parts by weight of theanhydrous sodium salt of the sulfo acids are melted together'.

Example 3: To 60 parts by weight of machine oil of 0.906 specificgravity, 40 parts by weight of anhydrous potassium (or calcium) salts ofthe sulfo acids are added during warming.

The mixture of fats, wax, resins and oils thus obtained according tothequantity of sulfo acids and their salts introduced when mixed withwater produce either transparent solutions or form very solid emulsions.By their chemical or physical qualities they differ greatly from allsimilar preparations heretofore known. Thus, for instance, owing to thepresence of sulfo acids of naphtha and mineral. oils they possess agreater emulsifying and moistening capacity than soaps and sulfonatedvegetable oils and they are distinguished by their great erties thesepreparations may find extensiye application in textile industry.

Having now described our invention, what wecla-im as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is I 1. The process of making from substancescapable of but not readily emulsifying, a umterial having the propertyof mixing" with water in any desired proportion to form a stable,homogei'ieous emulsion, which consists in mixing said substance with asulfonic body which has been separated from a sulfonated mineral oil.

2-. The process of making from substances capable of but not readilyemulsifying, a

material having the property of mixing with water in any desiredproportion to term a stable, homogeneous emulsion, which consists inmixing said substance with a suli'onic body which has been separatedfrom a sulfonated mineral oil in the presence of a. relatively small percent. of a volatile solvent of said sulfonic body.

3. A readily emulsifying substance consisting of a mixture of asubstance'capable of but not readily emulsifying, with a mineral oilsulfonic body, said substance having the property of rapidly emulsifyingwhen mixed with water in any desired proportion, to form a V stable,homogeneous emulsion. I

GRIGORI PETROFF.

